Thanks for featuring Studentpreneur! I've been working on free printing at the University of Sheffield (UK). The business is franchised from a group of Dutch students who I met up with back in Feb. Similar businesses offer 'free love' in all shapes and sizes: notepaper, napkins, photocopying.

Ideally yes, the founders in the Netherlands have three printers and are going through around 30000 prints/week. They went to an on-campus university shop (privately owned) and thus foregone any tediousness trying to deal with the university. In the UK, EVERYTHING on campus is controlled by the University - who are terrible at getting anything done. Advertisers aren't interested until I have something in place and the University can't be persuaded to work any faster.

Still, to paraphrase Lance Armstrong, I'd rather die of thirst than drink a cup of boring graduate job.